The Stephen Smale prize , founded by the Society for Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM), was first awarded to Snorre H. Christiansen, professor of mathematics at the University of Oslo, Norway. The Prize was presented by FoCM chair Felipe Cucker on the last day of the FoCM'11 conference in Budapest, on July 14th 2011. The ceremony was also attended by Stephen Smale, one of the most influential contemporary mathematicians. The Prize is awarded every three years by FoCM to one outstanding young mathematician in the area of computational mathematics. The Executive Committee of FoCM decided that the Smale Prize should be an individual Gömböc . As Michael Shub, co-author of the Blum-Shub-Smale machine explained, the Gömböc and ideas leading to the Gömböc are closely related to the work of Stephen Smale, who proved the higher dimensional Poincaré-conjecture.

The Hungarian TV news can be viewed at this this link, the ceremony starts at 6:45.